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Color Poems—Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting
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| Grades | 3 – 5 |
| Lesson Plan Type | Standard Lesson |
| Estimated Time | Four 50-minute sessions |
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MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY
- Large boxes of crayons, or paint chips from a home improvement store
- Additional color poems from Mary O'Neill's Hailstones and Halibut Bones and/or the listed Websites
- Sentence Strips
- Writer's notebooks
- Variety of art materials
STUDENT INTERACTIVES
Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
The interactive Printing Press is designed to assist students in creating newspapers, brochures, and flyers.
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PREPARATION
- Have a variety of physical examples of color available for the students. This could be a large box of crayons, or paint chips from the home improvement store.
- Gather sample poems to share with students from Mary O'Neill's Hailstones and Halibut Bones and/or the listed Websites.
- Make appropriate copies of the Color Poem Templates, Color Poem Examples, and Color Poem Assessment.
- This lesson assumes that students have a working knowledge of similes. If not, please refer to the following lessons to set the stage: Figurative Language Awards Ceremony.
- View additional poetry links, if necessary, to ensure that they are appropriate for your students.
- Test the ReadWriteThink Printing Press on your computers to familiarize yourself with the tools and ensure that you have the Flash plug-in installed. You can download the plug-in from the technical support page.
- Choose the templates that will work best for your students' work-brochures, flyers, or booklets. Adapt this lesson plan for the option you've chosen.